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I wonder on how many of those stars/planets there are people saying "Nah there's no life out there"?
Here today gone to Maui...
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Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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chriselst wrote: 7 42
FTFY
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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Exactly the answer is always 42, it's called a SWAG (Sorry Wild Ass Guess)
Here today gone to Maui...
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Your only half right you forgot the " x 6"
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My brain may well be turning to mush, but...doesn't that mean the stars are rather close together?
10E6 stars in a sphere 150LY diameter.
That's a volume of 1.77E6 cubic LY, (according to Google) which would make the average distance between stars around 1/5th LY, wouldn't it?
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Yes, would be quite toasty 
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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Not only that, but if life evolved there, you could build a slower-than-light probe that could reach other stars in your own lifetime...and have a huge number of potential life bearing targets to choose from. 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Correct, it's quite a dense cluster (NASA estimate about 1/3 of a light year).
One day I aspire to having a signature.
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Arrg, can't you post something useful for once, like what horse to bet on etc? 
Nice picture though 
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Kenneth Haugland wrote: like what horse to bet on
If I could do that...
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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So what you're saying is that we are stuck with the astronomy pictures, right?
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Well, no, I can give you my recommendations for horses but I'm not sure you'd want to follow them...
Best I stick with the pretty pictures.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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I can't be the first one to think of this[^], surely?
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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No, you can't.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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Didn't the Vorlon wipe that place out?
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Took me a while to figure out how he did that.
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I'm sure he "created" energy, didn't he?
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Well, that seems to be the simplest solution: he's broken the laws of physics as we understand them.
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I stopped understanding them when the lecturer started talking about the quantum mass of a hole... 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Yep, I've known some pretty big 'holes' in my time and I'd stop listening if anyone tried to tell me about their quantum mass! 
"State acheived after eating too many chocolate-covered coconut bars - bountiful"
Chris C-B
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That's just a quasi particle called a hole, like a phonon. It's not a real particle, just mathematically indistinguishable from one.
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Wireless charging tech, anybody? (I.e transformers with an air-core, rather than a ferromagnetic one)
I find it far more interesting that one of the commentators indicates that Brazil now has in place a system in jails whereby prisoners can reduce their sentence by riding exercise bikes connected to generators. A concept that touches on one of the ones explored in one of the episodes in the Black Mirror[^] tv series. (S1E2)
I recommend it to those that are happy to look at a darkly satirical view on society and what may be logical conclusions for many of out preoccupations and the way that being part of society is changing generally into a soulless experience.
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